Dirk Smit Email & Phone Number

Veghel, Nb, Nl

North Brabant, Netherlands

As an Enterprise Senior Sales Executive for Vertica at OpenText, I drive revenue growth by providing advanced data analytics solutions to enterprise clients.Consultative Selling: Understanding complex customer needs in big data and analytics, and delivering tailored Vertica solutions that enhance data-driven decision-making.Building Strategic Relationships: Cultivating long-term partnerships with C-level executives and key stakeholders to create value and ensure successful implementation of Vertica’s technology.Solution Architecting: Collaborating with technical teams to architect scalable, high-performance analytics solutions that handle massive data volumes and optimize insights.Sales Strategy: Leading the sales cycle from prospecting through closing, with a focus on exceeding revenue targets and expanding market presence across the enterprise sector.Market Leadership: Staying ahead of industry trends and positioning Vertica as a leading solution in the data analytics space.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

At AppALM, we are dedicated to serving the best interests of SAP customers. From the development phase, we utilize tools in the Low-Code/No-Code space and SAP Fiori, with a strong focus on integrating non-SAP software solutions through an API-first approach. Our mission is to accelerate time to market for enterprise applications, ensuring offline capabilities and user simplicity.Beyond development, we ensure a smooth and high-quality transformation journey for our clients. In collaboration with @SQALogic in Canada, we provide comprehensive test management and automation services using industry-leading tools such as Tricentis and OpenText (formerly HP and Microfocus). To complete the full Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) spectrum, we also offer expertise in SAP Cyber Security and risk assessments through our partnership with @SmarterSec in Germany.AppALM offers end-to-end services, including licensing and vendor negotiations, acting as a trusted advisor throughout your entire digital journey. Our expertly trained resources are designed to support your digital transformation, including SAP S/4HANA implementations.

Netherlands

As Global Sales Director at Neptune Software, I worked closely with organizations and their C-level executives to embrace agile development and DevOps practices, focusing on simplifying and reducing the cost of development while enhancing the ultimate user experience (UX).Through Neptune's leading Multi-Experience Development Platform (MXDP), I empowered businesses to build applications rapidly and cost-effectively. By partnering with clients, we significantly reduced time to market, improved user adoption, and streamlined training processes. Our platform enabled the seamless integration of data from any source—whether on-premise, cloud, legacy systems, or even Excel—into unified applications that drive productivity and collaboration.Neptune Software helped businesses combine information from multiple backends into scalable, flexible applications, ensuring that our customers could innovate faster and operate smarter.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

As the Territory Manager for BeNeLux, Middle East and Africa, Australia and New Zealand, I help organizations to think and talk about agile development/devops and to have them achieve and live it. By partnering up with these organizations, we extend them the ability, through our leading Rapid Application Development Platform, to build applications quickly and cost effectively, increase the time to market, better the user adoption, speed up training and of course, achieve the power to build apps that collaborate data from any platform, any backend, anywhere. We help our valued customers to combine information from multiple sources into a single application or multiple applications, whether on premise, cloud, legacy or trusty old excel!

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Global Head of Sales at Solutive AG and Entrepreneur. My main responsibility is to take the company to the global stage and unifying the entire sales organization. Processes, GtM, organizational restructuring and sales driven focus. Key aspects like Strategic Sales planning, demand generation and shortening sales cycles is the critical aim to our success as a Startup organization.Our focus is customer centric, helping customer comply with regulation, simplify SAP Changes and Releases, automate manual effort and reduce the total cost of ownership of their entire SAP Landscape.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Global sales director/head at Virtual Forge. My main responsibility is to take the company to the global stage and unifying the entire sales organization. Processes, GtM, organizational restructuring and sales driven focus. Helped with key aspects like strategic sales planning, demand generation and motivational selling. Ensure a customer satisfaction sales approach and lead by example.

Den Bosch, Netherlands

Heading up the Quality & Security Assurance direct software sales team for EMEA and MEE. The team's purpose is to integrate with the regional services and software sales teams to focus on Test and Performance Management as well as Application Security for SAP and potential Non-SAP clients. Key focus is sales engagement with C-Level executives and full management of software sales cycles.My responsibility include business development and sales strategies across EMEA/MEE, Go to market strategies as well team management of the sales organization of QSA. Critical aspect was C-Level engagement with sales cycles, on top of aligning with extended sales teams.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for Engagement and sales to SAP customers on the Database and Technology platform. My area of expertise is mainly on Middleware which include Information Management, ADI and IT Management (Previously ALM). My area consisted of:- EIM (including Data Services, Information Steward, Master Data Management and Governance, Content Management and Archiving, Enterprise architecture and modeling)- ADI (including adobe forms, SAP Netweaver Portal, Microsoft/SAP integration, Identity Management, SAP Netweaver Cloud)- Visualization, Virtualization and Cloud- IT Management (Solution Manager, infrastructure management, test management and automation, system and ifnfrastructure monitoring and process automation)- 3rd Party products such as HP, CA, Cisco and Redwood

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Strategic Account Executive for SQIM who specialize in Strategy, Quality Assurance, Integration and Monitoring of medium to large enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, JD Edward and other ERP systems. With large focus on business process validation and business process functional testing, the aim is to reduce the total cost of ownership of these large enterprise systems and automate these test cases by eliminating script based test cases and putting the power of the business process validation back into the hands of the business analysts/experts.

Somerset West

Responsible for Sales and implementation of ALM software and systems in order to reduce the TCO of SAP systems for our customers. Managing a team of consultants and sales reps to achieve the goal of growing the business year on year.

Agent web interaction database and development using MS SQL 2005 and MySQL 4.0/5Responsible for the setup of 5 agent databases, configuration, management and data warehousingConstructed Sales register, sales report and progress reports using Crystal reports and PHPDatabase manipulation and PHP Programming for reporting purposesExecutive reporting to Directors and shareholdersCRM using GoldmineDesigned website for Kalahari Gholf en Jag, Marble Hall Gholf Landgoed, Grootrivier Gholf Landgoed and The Riverclub Golf Estate in Mauritius. Day to day maintenance on databases. Backup responsibilities on databases, both MySQL and MS SQL, and client machinesManagement of day to day operation and Project Management.- Disaster recovery- Disaster management and control- Change Control and Risk Management- ERP and other related database warehousing- SQL Server 7.0 development, administration and design- SQL Server 2000 development, administration and design- SQL Server 2005 development, administration and design- MS Transact SQL programming and stored procedures, including triggers and web interfaces- SQL Database design and implementation, stored procedures- BCP and DTC transactions- Networking (LAN/WAN)- MS Exchange Administration- Bulk Mail merging- User support- Anti Virus using Symantec

Responsible for the day to day operations of the Online Casino on the technical level. Ensuring the systems remain stable, online and optimized. Helping customer with technical queries through our support department. Implementing new casino games, payment methods, payout processing and ensure customer experience satisfaction.

Responsible for the day to day operations of the Online Casino on the technical level. Ensuring the systems remain stable, online and optimized. Helping customer with technical queries through our support department. Implementing new casino games, payment methods, payout processing and ensure customer experience satisfaction.

Kansas City, Kansas

Database development, database design, PL/SQL scripting, risk management, disaster recovery, project management, Network Administration

Bachelors, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Degree

N Dip Electrical Engineering, Electronics

(Equivalent to 4 years Bachelors degree Electrical Engineering)

Bachelors Degree, Computer Science

MCSE Electives : TCP/IP and SQL Server 7.0 Database Administration MCDBA and MCSE combined with 4 year experience is Equivalent to 4

Electronic Engineering, Radar And Microwave